Pre-Season NIT Champs....

[bigblahla]

Tough sledding but the top dogs won....How about some love for our Zags....


Go!! Zags!!!

[bartruff1]

Lots of good stuff to build on...huge wins...on the big stage... a loss would have been a big set back if you care about rankings...Melson looks like a stud muffin....

[CDC84]

It was probably a good thing that Gonzaga had a close game (at least near the end) going into the Arizona game next weekend. Nonetheless, they didn't defend well in NYC. Yes, they held both teams to low percentages, but both teams shot a combined 58 foul shots....largely because GU kept fouling to stop the dribble drive. They are kind of fortunate that both UGA and SJU shot poorly from the foul stripe. That won't happen next weekend at Zona.

Eric McClellan is a needed player in this rotation. He's the kind of guy that you can stick on Rysheed Jordan.

[Zaglaw]

Congrats to the Zags on a hard-fought win. Opponents often make runs. Being able maintain poise and soldier on when they do is a big deal. Nice win!

[Mantua]

Great job closing it out towards the end of the clock.

[GonzaGAW]

well first off a win is a win, team gutted it out and are pre season nit champs! make room for more hardware in the trophy case.

positives, melson did not wilt in the bright lights, indeed we can win with a new hot hand on any given game, overcame adversity in the way of some terrible calls.

negatives, for the first time we did not put away as team when we could have. still need work of free throw shooting

takeaways, 2 games coach can use as constructive teaching moments, especially on defense. hype about final four I think is just that hype. we've got work to do.

good job team! congrats, go zags.

[raise the zag]

Congrats Zags!

So much deserved and then some...

Many sacrifices were made...an injury, a redshirt, a holiday, fair officiating, you name it!

Pre-Season NIT champs!

[CDC84]

I was also very pleased to see Gonzaga make a couple of big time defensive plays in crunch time. Not just Gary taking the charge, but also Dranginis and Wesley cutting off the baseline on that SJU driver.

[zag67]

Congrats and good luck in going forward. I think that some of the defensive problems are the addition of new players into a very complicated set of switching defenses. I think that this improve as the year goes on and will be ready as we get ready for league. I still think that 1 loss going into league, will be a good start.

[LynetteG]

All I have to say is........... Michigan won the NIT Pre-season Tipoff 3 Thanksgivings ago and ended up going to the Championship game that year........... let's see if that holds true this year!!!!!!! GO ZAGS!!!!!!

[jim77]

Congrats Zags!

[LongIslandZagFan]

They might be the last preseason NIT champs. 5500 in attendance per ESPN.

[maynard g krebs]

Terrific job of maintaining poise and executing through a lot of externally created adversity.

[bigblahla]

How about that, Zags are Pre-season NIT Champs....a true road win at the mecca of college basketball against a Big East team....as stated above lots of tape to study. learn and improve from....all done without absorbing a loss....nothing to complain about....Zags earned a hard fought well deserved victory....Hail to the Champs!!!

Go!! Zags!!!

[DZ]

They might be the last preseason NIT champs. 5500 in attendance per ESPN.

Does SJ draw better than that during the league games later in the year? Is it just vacation weekend that kept the SJU faithful away?

All in all, the team did not play too well over two games.

However, they aren't always going to play well. They had close calls going against them the whole time, and they gutted out two wins.

Very much a good sign and deserve a lot of credit.